Inspiring business quotes
Amidst the storms of change, our resilience reveals the strength of our character. Through understanding and building relationships, we bridge cultures and find common ground. In the pursuit of knowledge and innovation, we embrace the universal path to continuous growth.
Here are three universal messages derived from the quotes:
- Resilience and Adaptability: In a world filled with challenges and change, the ability to adapt, persevere, and reveal your true character during tough times is a universal message. Regardless of culture, background, or profession, the capacity to weather crises and emerge stronger is a shared human trait.
- The Power of Relationships and Understanding: Building strong relationships, both in business and personal life, and embracing cultural diversity are universally important. Understanding others, cooperating, and finding common ground are keys to success and harmony across the globe.
- Continuous Learning and Innovation: The pursuit of knowledge, self-improvement, and the drive to innovate are universal themes. These principles transcend borders and cultures, highlighting the shared human desire for growth, change, and a better future.
“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.”
Herbert George Wells
“The essence of successful negotiation is to find the right balance between self-interest and the interests of others.”
Roger Fisher
“Deep within the complexity of negotiation, we find the core of human perception.”
Happy CEO
“A quality professional helps a company figure out how to do things right, especially as the company grows or faces challenges, and it’s like guiding the company to follow a clear path to success.“
Happy CEO
“Simplify to perfection. Streamlining processes, products, and services, inspired by minimalism, is the key to achieving effectiveness and universal acclaim, paving the path to continuous success. Remember, perfection is an ephemeral endpoint, not a permanent one.”
Happy CEO
“In the midst of adversity, we embarked on a journey to integrate the wisdom of Kaizen in our small company, where the art of simplification led to remarkable improvements. This path reminds us that even in turbulent times, long-term success blooms from harmony and balance, and that the journey itself is the destination.”
Happy CEO
“In order to change our situation, we first have to change ourselves. And to change ourselves effectively, we first have to change our perceptions.”
Stephen Covey
“Lean is similar to a socio-technical system in which people play a central role and are a resource that needs development”
Jude Dibia
“In the domain of leadership, the strategic vision, fortified by the alignment of Lean and Financial Control, serves as the persistent guide that leads organizations through challenging times. Continuously questioning convention, valuing a culture of transformation, and investing in the development of employees, businesses of all sizes can steer towards enhanced performance, even in the toughest of times.”
Happy CEO
“Culture is like a complex tapestry made up of different aspects like art, laws, and beliefs. It evolves over time and is crucial in negotiations.”
Happy CEO
“A field, however fertile it may be, cannot be productive without culture, and the same applies to humans without education.”
Cicero
“Culture encompasses, in addition to the arts, letters and sciences, the ways of life, laws, value systems, traditions and beliefs. This “common reservoir” evolves over time through and in the forms of exchanges. It is made up of multiple distinct ways of being, thinking, acting and communicating in society.”
UNESCO
“The successful warrior is the average man with laser-like focus.”
Bruce Lee
“Have the wisdom to know when to unlock and how to apply strategic tools for the success of your vision.”
Happy CEO
“Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.”
Lao Tzu
“The only source of knowledge is experience.”
Albert Einstein
“The concept of culture is important in understanding our relationship with measurement.”
Annick Bourguignon
“Measuring is revealing reality. Measuring is also seeing things from a different perspective. Measuring can be laborious. All of this can influence the postures of those in charge of measurements. And we will see that our culture plays a significant role and explains the attitudes of the actors in measurements.”
Thierry Castagné
“The ways in which individuals and collectives are linked vary according to cultures.”
Philippe d’Iribarne
“Values are the guiding stars that illuminate the path of our choices and the foundation of our character.”
Happy CEO
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
Steve Jobs
“The best companies are built not only on great products but on great missions.”
Reid Hoffman
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
Peter Drucker
“Crafting the blueprint for a purpose-driven business is the art of turning ‘why’ and vision into a mission, where the extraordinary journey of making a difference begins.”
Happy CEO
“Crisis doesn’t build character; it reveals it.”
Dave Cottrell
“Cultural diversity is an invaluable asset in the business world, but it requires genuine understanding to thrive.”
John Smith
“Remember that culture is a bridge to mutual understanding and success in international negotiations. To excel, stay culturally aware and adapt to your counterpart’s preferences.”
Happy CEO
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston Churchill
“Be here now. You’ll be somewhere else later. Is it that complicated? »
David Bader
“Most Powerpoint or Keynote presentations today are absolutely soporific, with slides filled with text and bullet points repeating exactly what the speaker is saying, and cluttered images blending in with the background, due to a general misunderstanding of how it is possible to make a good presentation.”
Garr Reynolds
“Coopetition is the willingness to cooperate with one’s competition to achieve a larger strategic objective.”
Karl-Heinz Sebastian
“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.”
Peter Drucker
“The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.”
Marlee Matlin
“Move fast, be bold, and build things. The power of social influence in today’s interconnected world can turn small ideas into global phenomena.”
Mark Zuckerberg
“In international trade, the art of influence knows no boundaries. Effective social influence strategies have the power to bridge cultures, build trust, and open doors to international success. Embrace the world of influencers, for in it lies the key to unlocking global opportunities.”
Happy CEO
“Everyday is 5S day ! 5S is an habit, not a request.”
Happy CEO
“The rise of remote work means we need better “intercultural skills”.
Tatiana Reuil
This is what that means.”
“Muda is not only about reducing waste; it is also about managing resources wisely.”
Taiichi Ohno
“Sound affects us physiologically, psychologically, cognitively, and behaviorally. Sound can heal and sound can hurt.”
Julian Treasure
“Six Sigma is a business strategy that enables companies to drastically improve their bottom line by designing and monitoring everyday business activities in ways that minimize waste and resources while increasing customer satisfaction.”
Jack Welch
“How can you govern a country that has 246 varieties of cheese?”
Charles de Gaulle
“French negotiation is often seen as difficult by foreigners who practice it. They criticize it for being too long, too complex, too unpredictable, too confrontational and too personal. They have trouble understanding the implicit codes, the innuendos, the unspoken and the power games that govern the relations between French negotiators.”
Marc Cathelineau
“Success in negotiations often depends on your ability to recognize and adapt to the four major behavioral styles – Dominant, Influential, Stable, and Conscientious – it’s the art of understanding and connecting with people.”
Tony Alessandra
“Made to Stick”: Structuring your presentation involves defining the flow of your ideas and implementing the six principles : Simplicity, unexpectedness, concreteness, credibility, emotion, and storytelling.
Garr Reynolds
“Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing, layout, processes, and procedures.”
Tom Peters
“The value stream is the critical pathway that transforms raw inputs into a finished product, where every step should add value to the customer. Understanding and optimizing this flow is the essence of process improvement and efficiency in modern business.”
Happy CEO
“You need to choose wisely: which two to five metrics best reflect the overall performance of the value stream?”
Karen Martin
“Value stream mapping provides a clear view of the customer and holistic ways to clearly see how traditionally disparate parts of the organization are interconnected, which can serve as a catalyst for reorganizing along value streams.“
Karen Martin
“Mastering negotiation styles isn’t just a skill. It’s an art, a dance of human connection that transcends borders.”
Happy CEO
“Excellence comes from the pursuit of perfection in every aspect of our operations.”
Happy CEO
“The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.”
Lewis Ergen
“The heterogeneity of skills is a factor in the richness of exchanges, the creativity of the group, and an effective division of roles. Within a team game… each teammate seeks the prestigious personal move which ensures both his success and that of of the team.”
Roger Mucchielli
“The strategy is like a ball tossed between different levels in the organization until a final decision is made. A catchball is, first of all, an exchange of opinions, discussion, each participant in the process should hear the other.”
Alexey Cherkasov
“Strategic innovation requires creativity, courage, and an unwavering willingness to learn and adapt.”
Happy CEO
“A team overly reliant on a dominant or prestigious personality may either dissipate with that leader or transform into a mere memory.”
Roger Mucchielli
“Hoshin Kanri is not a tool for strategy development, it is a tool for strategy execution. It is a system for ensuring that the strategic intent of top management becomes a reality at the front line.”
Pascal Dennis
“Team Negotiation is not a chaotic cacophony, but a harmonious symphony. It follows a set of rules that give life and meaning to the intricate dynamics of a group.”
Happy CEO
“Assertiveness is not what you do, it’s who you are.”
Shakti Gawain
“Plan, Do, Check, Act is a simple yet powerful formula to drive continuous improvement and solve complex problems effectively.”
Shigeo Shingo
“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.”
Karl Menninger
“We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.”
Carl Rogers
“It’s the process of value stream mapping rather than the maps themselves that carries the greatest power by installing transformational mindsets and behaviors into the DNA of an organization.”
Karen Martin
“Few realize how loud their expressions really are. Be kind with what you wordlessly say.”
Richelle Goodrich
“Smart negotiators don’t just listen to the words, they also watch the body language. They look for clues that reveal the true meaning behind the words.”
Happy CEO
“In times of crisis, the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers.”
T’Challa
“Your drivers are not your destiny, they are your choice.”
Unknown author
“We need to create a culture of continuous improvement that fosters innovation and excellence.
Happy CEO
That’s how we can make Lean work for us.
That’s how we can make a difference.”
“A phenomenon of distancing is at work in the case of continuous improvement approaches driven by lean. This concept has been largely misused by managers who have tended to focus solely on chasing waste (muda), neglecting the potential for learning and adaptation contained in the other two principles (mura and muri) relating to control, the variability of situations and work overloads.”
Philippe Lorino
“On-demand production is not just a trend, it’s a necessity. It’s the way to meet the ever-changing needs and preferences of customers, while reducing waste and environmental impact. It’s the way to unleash creativity and innovation, while optimizing efficiency and quality. It’s the way to create value and make a difference.”
Unknown author
“The concept of script is the life plan that we unconsciously follow based on the decisions we made in our childhood. A loser has a negative scenario that leads him to failure and misery. A winner has a positive storyline that leads them to success and happiness. A winner can also face setbacks and challenges, while a loser can only fantasize and escape.”
Terry Paulson
“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.
Carl Gustav Jung
Who looks outside, dreams;
Who looks inside, awakes.”
“In the fast-paced, ever-changing world of business today, you have to be nimble and willing to adapt. If you’re not constantly innovating and evolving, you’re falling behind.”
Jeff Bezos
“Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.”
Robert Holden
“Financial control is not a substitute for change, but a means of managing it.”
Anthony Stafford Beer
“The brain operates pretty much on its own, and its focus is survival. The mind is able to focus on more than just survival; it affords us the opportunity to create and choose from a myriad of options.”
Tom Hoobyar
“Few realize how loud their expressions really are. Be kind with what you wordlessly say.”
Richelle E. Goodrich
“You can say a lot without saying a word.”
Unknown author
“How you carry yourself speaks volumes about how you feel about yourself.”
Cindy Ann Peterson
“Communication across cultural boundaries is complex, situational, and dynamic; it involves much more than learning a set of rules or facts about another culture.”
Stella Ting-Toomey
“The German language, which is very descriptive and precise, reflects a mode of communication that corresponds to a low-context culture and is characterized by a clear, explicit and direct message.”
Edward T. Hall
“Intercultural communication is a symbolic, interpretive, transactional, contextual process, in which people from different cultures create shared meanings.”
Myron W. Lustig & Jolene Koester
“The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize.”
Shigeo Shingo
“It is a new era of perpetual evolution, in which the pace and intensity of change is accelerating and for which organizations are implementing continuous improvement initiatives. From decision-making support, Financial control is shifting towards helping to control progress, profoundly modifying the relationships it maintains with management and operational managers.”
Romuald De La Cruz
“Tolerance, inter-cultural dialogue and respect for diversity are more essential than ever in a world where peoples are becoming more and more closely interconnected.”
Kofi Annan
“The situation of the Partner Financial Controller function is particularly fragile. Either it imposes its authority and inhibits the creativity of the operational staff who only think of their income statement, or it is swallowed up by the operational teams and may be led to manipulate the results.”
Caroline Lambert & Samuel Sponem
“Financial control is a critical function in organizations. It helps ensure that the organization’s objectives are achieved, that resources are used efficiently and effectively, and that the organization complies with relevant laws and regulations.”
Henri Bouquin
“Information today supplants natural resources and human knowledge in the digital economy and we are then faced with a system in which the notion of volume disappears for practically all actors. The marginal cost tends to zero and the only dimension to control is the capacity and its use.”
Pierre Mevellec
“We see the development of networks led by a core firm or more fluid value networks with organic functioning. The company coordinates all the inter-organizational flows to deliver its product-service offer to the end consumer.”
Cinzia Parolini
“Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you make, but about the stories you tell.”
Seth Godin
“We have to dare to be simple, direct and honest. Simplicity in our behavior gives us strength. Simplicity and humbleness characterize us in our relations with each others, our suppliers and our customers.”
“To design a desk which may cost $1,000 is easy for a furniture designer but to design a functional and good desk which shall cost only $50 can only be done by the very best.”
Ingvar Kamprad
“Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid of not trying.”
Michael Jordan
“The skills management and training plan should not be seen as a waste of time by teams who lack resources, but as a dynamic Kaizen tool for the vision and performance of the company.“
Guilherme Luz Tortorella
“Cognitive diversity is the immune system of a team; it is the invisible layer that has proven benefit in terms of performance. Having said that, it has the potential for success or disaster. It depends on the level of psychological safety and cultural intelligence.”
Csaba Toth
“Cognitive diversity is encapsulated in a single question: faced with a problem, how do you solve it?”
Mai Lam Nguyen-Conan
“It’s like having an orchestra: you can have all the instruments you want, but if they don’t play in harmony, you won’t get good music.”
Happy CEO
“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”
Andrew Carnegie
“The first principle of the Toyota Production System is to make decisions based on a long-term philosophy, even at the expense of short-term financial goals.”
Happy CEO
“Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the course of centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved.”
Andre Malraux
“Lean management in times of crisis means learning to adapt constantly, learning to learn, integrating organizational learning as a vector of performance.”
Happy CEO
“Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives.“
Sonia Sotomayor
“People of different religions and cultures live side by side in almost every part of the world, and most of us have overlapping identities which unite us with very different groups. We can love what we are, without hating what – and who – we are not. We can thrive in our own tradition, even as we learn from others, and come to respect their teachings.”
Kofi Annan
“The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is not training them and having them stay.”
Henry Ford
“The added value of such a system is that the sum of individual skills exponentially improves the overall know-how of the company.”
Happy CEO
“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.”
Peter Drucker
“Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.”
Mark Twain
“We cannot not communicate. Communication is expressed as much by gestures and silences as by words and deeds.”
Gregory Bateson
“There is a significant gap between theoretical Lean and the results obtained. Two dimensions are essential for the success of a continuous improvement project: the commitment and the participation of the teams.”
Torbjorn Netland
“A gentleman’s agreement is an understanding which is based upon the trust of both parties, rather than being legally binding.”
David Ogilvy
“Asking employees to improve processes without offering them a stake in the outcomes is a losing proposition. There is a difficulty in making the participatory systems and continuous improvement specific to Lean Manufacturing work. Performance will not be sustainable.”
Jeffrey K. Liker
“The relationship between language and social class is often mediated by access to and mastery of writing. Oral tradition is not static or fixed; it evolves and adapts according to the interests and needs of each generation.”
Happy CEO
“Writing requires a higher level of abstraction and formalization than speech, which can create barriers for some groups of people who are not familiar with the conventions and norms of written language.”
The Ladder of Abstraction
“Humans are biologically predisposed to become “speakers” but not necessarily “writers”.
Happy CEO
“Contracts are culture-bound. They reflect the values and norms of the societies in which they are made.”
Stewart Macaulay
“Power can have a significant impact on negotiations. Power can lead negotiators to behave more proactively throughout the negotiation process. Additionally, powerful negotiators may be more creative risk-takers. However, power can also lead individuals to overlook what the other party wants and needs and why they need it.“
Harvard Law School
“Power is critical to improving your negotiated outcomes. When preparing for a negotiation with a powerful counterpart, try to increase your own sense of power on as many levels as possible.”
Harvard Law School
“A psychological contract represents the mutual beliefs, perceptions and informal obligations between an employer and an employee. It sets the dynamics for the relationship and defines the detailed practicality of the work to be done.“
Denise Rousseau
“There is no patience for waste.”
Jack Welch
“By reducing stocks or buffers to a minimum, lean makes all actors in the value chain interdependent on each other, forcing them to improve.”
Happy CEO
“Leading by example creates trust and shapes the culture.”
Happy CEO
“The Value creation can be measured by the difference between the resources consumed and the price paid by the customer. The net result does not necessarily correspond to the notion of profit as a measure of value creation because it does not allow us to understand the various processes that contribute to this value creation.”
Benoît Pigé
“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Soft skills get little respect but they will make or break your career.”
Peggy Klaus
“The act of deeply thinking through problems, energizing people, and aligning them toward a common goal is the only way to practice and develop real leadership ability.”
Jeffrey K. Liker
“The Toyota style is not about creating results by working hard. It is a system that places no limits on people’s creativity. Employees don’t go to Toyota to work, they go there to think.”
Taiichi Ohno
“I’m trying to elevate small talk to medium talk.”
Larry David
“Continuous improvement is first and foremost a process characterized by small incremental changes in a productive process.”
John Bessant
“We are fascinated by words, but where we meet is in the silence behind them.”
Ram Dass
“Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced.”
Taiichi Ohno
“Negotiation is not a game of chance. It is a skill that requires preparation and practice.”
Happy CEO
“The manager is no longer the one who makes things happen but the one who makes people learn. The manager relearns to be on the pitch. He achieved his goals by developing his people.”
Jim Womack & Dan Jones
“We cannot negotiate with people who say what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.”
John F. Kennedy
“What if you are too emotionally invested in the outcome of the negotiation?“
Happy CEO
“During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively.”
Brian Koslow
“When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.”
John Maynard Keynes
“Negotiation is not a game of chance. It is a skill that requires preparation and practice.”
Happy CEO
“Sustainable development is the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
Gro Harlem Brundtland
“Innovation is the vital energy that allows a society to regain the initiative, not to decline, to renew itself.”
Mikko Koria
“We have the capacity to create a remarkably different economy: one that can restore ecosystems and protect the environment while bringing forth innovation, prosperity, meaningful work, and true security.”
Paul Hawken
“Agility is the ability to adapt and respond to change. Agile organizations view change as an opportunity, not a threat.”
Jim Highsmith
“The performance of SMEs today results from two necessities: developing new products and services (Innovation) to position themselves in a market and increasing the efficiency of processes (being agile) to be profitable.”
Laurent Muller
“The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.”
Howard Baker
“Win-win is a belief in the Third Alternative. It’s not your way or my way; it’s a better way, a higher way.”
Stephen R. Covey
“You must obtain a concession before making one. This will condition the rest of the interview.”
Row Cayatte
“A bargain is something you don’t need at a price you can’t resist.”
Franklin Jones
“Don’t forget to remind the salesperson of the time he has at the start of the interview. Limit the interview to 45 minutes, knowing that a classic negotiation lasts twice as long, and remind the salesperson of the time remaining after 30 and 40 minutes .”
Row Cayatte
“The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn’t even thought of, and then meet it.”
Eli Broad
“Whoever has the most choice and weight in the negotiation is one step ahead!”
Philippe Korda
“Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent.”
Bill Gates
“Agility seems to be attractive for public hospitals so that they can adjust to a turbulent, complex and unpredictable environment through a set of variations of agility: organizational agility, strategic agility, project management agility, human resources agility.”
Jean-Luc Deharo
“Innovation is not born from the dream, innovation is born from the struggle.”
Simon Sinek
“The crisis places human beings face to face with their own contradictions, reveals their dysfunctions to society, forcing them to take time to define their new identity.”
Michel Devernaud
“It is now established that the correlation between growth in the standard of living and the rate of creative destruction is positive. The goal of fostering the process of creative destruction through innovation should be at the top of political agendas.”
Philippe Aghion
“Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.”
Michael Porter
“What is called the crisis is only the long and difficult rewriting which separates two provisional forms of the world”
Jacques Attali
“Kaizen and innovation are the two major strategies people use to create change. Where innovation demands shocking and radical reform, all kaizen asks is that you take small, comfortable steps toward improvement.”
Robert D. Maurer
“Negotiation is not a policy. It’s a technique. It’s something you use when it’s to your advantage, and something that you don’t use when it’s not to your advantage.”
John Bolton
“The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.”
Howard Baker
“The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.”
Aung San Suu Kyi
“The majority of business situations leave room for negotiation and what you don’t negotiate will be as much gained for those who negotiate.”
Eric Tiertant
“Always be ready to negotiate but never negotiate without being ready”
Richard Nixon
“Whenever you see a successful business, tell yourself it’s because someone made a brave decision one day.”
Peter Drucker
“The biggest mistake you can make in life, is to continue to fear to make one.”
Bear Gryll
“The only man who has never made a mistake is the one who never does anything.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Never forget that relationships change over time.”
Happy CEO
“The trees do not grow up to the sky.”
Expression of American origin according to which stock market prices cannot go up indefinitely.
“It is better to be wrong with everyone than right alone.”
John Maynard Keynes
“Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.”
Nelson Mandela
“The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.”
John Stuart Mill
“By adopting an attitude of passion, we love what we do and we do what we love. So we are better.”
Happy CEO
“The more your action calls on your talents, the more you will enjoy selling your products and succeeding.”
Happy CEO
“It is true that sometimes soldiers, exaggerating the relative impotence of intelligence, neglect to use it.”
Charles de Gaulle
“Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”
Charles Bukowski
“My faith in humanity leads me to believe that people are looking for something more elevating than the sordid details of the intimate aspects of one’s personal life.”
Ginger Rogers
“Either the client accepts what is offered to him. Either the company adapts to its customers, whoever they are.”
Happy CEO
“Globalization is a complex issue, partly because economic globalization is only one part of it. Globalization is greater global closeness, and that is cultural, social, political, as well as economic.”
Amartya Sen
“Differentiation is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small groups of students, rather than teaching a class as though all individuals in it were basically alike.”
Carol Ann Tomlinson
“Happiness is attractive. Once you decide to be happy, you attract great things into your life.”
Robert Holden
“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask “What else could this mean?”
Shannon Alder
“Never waste your time to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.”
Dream Hampton
“The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.“
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Sometimes you just have to take the leap and build your wings on the way down.”
Kobi Yamada
“Awareness is a key ingredient in success. If you have it, teach it, if you lack it, seek it.”
Michael Kitson
“Training and managing your own mind is the most important skill you could ever own, in terms of both happiness and success.”
T. Harv Eker
“The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.”
James Truslow Adams
“A trend is the result of all the forces that are changing us at the present moment and which will probably transform our future. These forces impact our geopolitical, social, cultural, economic and technological future. They provide us with a powerful vision into the future.”
Nitish Singh
“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. Life is never stagnation.“
Bruce Lee
“Most Japanese companies only have strategic goals but no explicit action plan. They lack confidence in business planning in general. For them, planning is about identifying major issues and creating an atmosphere for creative ideas and hard work that fosters a strong internal culture. Most major American corporations are run like the Soviet economy.”
Shuji Hayashi
“If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
Scott Cameron
“The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship.”
Brian Tracy
“If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.”
Fred DeVito
“Having no problems is the biggest problem of all.”
Taiichi Ohno
“Lean is a way of thinking, not a list of things to do.”
Shigeo Shingo
“Feel the warmth of humanity with every breath,
Happy CEO
Be aware of the time and space, don’t waste them in vain,
Take advantage of your vision, make it your mission,
To give the world what it values most, a precious gift,
Love that transcends all boundaries, don’t let it leave,
And the power to imagine and create, don’t hesitate.”
“Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you’re passionate about something, then you’re more willing to take risks.”
Yo-Yo Ma
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
Martin Buber
“The best goal is not to have one.”
Happy CEO
“Yesterday, I was clever and wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi
“The one who is agitated does not know how to do. The one who knows how to do doesn’t get agitated.»
Feng Meng Long
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Change brings opportunity.”
Nido Qubein
“I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.”
Anne Sexton
“Hope is not born on mountain tops, but in valleys when you’re looking to the heights & peaks that you’re yet to climb.”
Susanna April
“Goals convert vision into energy.”
Dave Ramsey
“My dream would be a multicultural society, one that is diverse and where every man, woman and child are treated equally. I dream of a world where all the people of all races work together in harmony.”
Nelson Mandela
“Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.”
Richard Alpert
“All the talent in the world won’t take you anywhere without your teammates.”
Happy CEO
“When I played, some of the best moments in rugby were with the guys who you have just gone 80 minutes with and you find out they are just like us. They are ordinary guys and you make lifelong friendships.”
Steve Hansen
“In today’s interconnected and globalized world, it is now commonplace for people of dissimilar world views, faiths and races to live side by side. It is a matter of great urgency, therefore, that we find ways to cooperate with one another in a spirit of mutual acceptance and respect.”
Dalai Lama
“Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champion are made with someting they have deep inside them. A desire. A dream. A vision.”
Muhammad Ali
“The Art of Peace can be summed up like this: the real victory is the victory over oneself: let this day come quickly! “True victory” means unyielding courage; “victory over self” symbolizes continuous effort; and “let that day come quickly” represents the glorious moment of triumph here and now. »
Ueshiba Morihei
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.“
Winston Churchill
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
Aldous Huxley
“Travelers are dreamers who make their desires for adventure a reality.”
Mark Twain
“Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It is the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances.”
Jack Welsh
“Don’t think you know what your customers want, ask them !”
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“In learning, you will teach and in teaching, you will learn.”
Phil Collins
“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can’t build on it it’s only good for wallowing in.”
Katherine Mansfield
“Learn continually. There’s always “One more think” to learn.”
Steve Jobs
“What is the purpose of life ? Maybe do your part and improve the lot of humanity.”
Tony Robbins
“Change is never painful. Only resistance to change is painful.”
Buddha
“No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.”
Barack Obama
“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”
Warren Buffet
“Start small and dream big.”
Robert Kiyosaki
“If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed.”
Deepak Chopra
“Failure is an option here. If you’re not failing, you’re not innovating enough.”
Elon Musk
“The measure of mental health is the dispostion to find good everywhere.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is important to act Immediately. Do ! You’ll fix the problems later.”
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“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
Dr. Theodor Seuss
“Nothing will work unless you do.”
John Wooden
“Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.”
Malcolm Gladwell
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
Edgar Degas
“More simplicity means communicating more clearly.“
Garr Reynolds
“If you control your distribution, you control your image”.
Bernard Arnault
“Creation comes before distribution, or there will be nothing to distribute.”
Ayn Rand
“All men are brothers. The golden rule of conduct is mutual tolerance, because we will never all think the same way, we will only see part of the truth and from different angles.”
Gandhi
“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”
Mother Teresa
“You must always be ready to negotiate, but never negotiate without being ready.”
Richard Nixon
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory, tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu
“Nothing develops intelligence like travel.”
Emile Zola
“To exist is a fact, to live is an art.
Frédéric Lenoir
The whole path of life is to pass from ignorance to knowledge.”
“Our happiness depends on who we are, on our individuality, whereas in general we only take into account what we have or what we represent.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“The hardest mountain to climb is the one within.”
J. Lynn
“The best view come after the hardest climb.”
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